it s a clear violation of human rights. these folks are sentenced to their term for the crime they committed. many nonviolent offenders who go in nonviolently, for whatever, often because of the war on drugs, and come out a different person because they had nothing to there to help them get past what they were dealing with in the prison setting. you didn t just do this as a policy exercise, you did it as you wrote, a personal exercise, the differences between you and some of the folks in the prisons in washington, d.c., you re a politician, they re not. you have a job, they don t. wealth and class and personal life may be a difference. also race. you re white, 91% of the prison population in washington, d.c. is black. that s right. and really, the policies that have been in place for decade asks decades in this country, not just in the district but throughout the country, have put a disproportionate impact on african-americans. the war on drugs is just one example. we also have the
think there should be therapy to try to change them into a heterosexual? i don t know. the fact is, we ll leave that to the psychologists and the doctors the psychologists have already weighed in, they ve dismissed the idea that sexual orientation is a mental disorder. congressman? well, let s be very clear. it is true that rick perry does have a genetic coding problem. he is coded to be pretty stupid. as we remember from the last time. and he just repeats it here. it is interesting he would cite the states rights example. as i said, the first case of the use of an executive order to prevent discrimination, actually it goes back to world war ii. when the late great labor leader a. philip randolf quoted, let them march on franklin delano roosevelt to insist there be a protection for negroes as they were then called, average a african-americans, against discrimination in employment leading up in the war effort. yeah, it is true that there were people who claim states had
rights to see that african-americans were mistreated. this is the same principle. it s not a case here even of states rights, we re talking about federal funding. we re talking about tax dollars that everybody pays, including those of us who are gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender, and whether or not having paid the taxes to hire these companies to do things we can be excluded from working for them. i hear you there. and also whether people who associate with states rights want to claim a state right to discriminate. that s a problematic position to say the least. former congressman barney frank, thank you very much. why a city councilman decided to spend the weekend in prison. what they do actually is rocket science. but at ge capital we also bring expertise from across ge, like lean process engineers we asked who does what, when, where, and why that step first? ideas for improvement started pouring out. with a little help from us, they actually doubled their output speed.